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title: Conditions for workers were often poor and exploitative, and local i… — Solomon Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: Conditions for workers were often poor and exploitative, and local islanders often violently attacked any Europeans who appeared on their island. Who acts: Conditions, Europeans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Solomon Islands» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Solomon Islands, sentence 54

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From Wikipedia, [«Solomon Islands»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Islands), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Conditions for workers were often poor and exploitative, and local islanders often violently attacked any Europeans who appeared on their island.

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**Who acts:** Conditions, Europeans · **What happens:** be, attack, appear · **To what, where:** local islanders, island

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Solomon Islands». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conditions, Europeans), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Solomon_Islands:54
# text = Conditions for workers were often poor and exploitative, and local islanders often violently attacked any Europeans who appeared on their island.
1	Conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	exploitative	exploitative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	islanders	islander	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	often	often	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	violently	violently	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	attacked	attack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	Europeans	European	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	obl:agent	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Conditions for workers |  |  |  |  | often, poor *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Conditions for workers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **attack** | participle · passive | any Europeans | local islanders |  |  |  | often, violently *property* | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 4 | **appear** | past | any Europeans |  |  | Islanders's island |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Solomon Islands», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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